Abe

12-year-old Abe has grown up in Brooklyn the son of a Palestinian father and a Jewish-Israeli mother. His parents raised him irreligiously, but both sets of grandparents are believers – some call him Abraham, others Ibrahim. There are many conflicts, in particular when the extended family gathers around the table on public holidays. Escaping them, Abe finds a new friend in a Brazilian street food seller. Director and Youtube activist Fernando Grostein, himself having roots in a multicultural family of Holocaust survivors, processes his own experiences in this lively tragicomedy about identity. Trusting the aesthetics of modern visual language, he illustrates that good food has the power to bring together people from different backgrounds and reconcile them. Recommended for age 8 or older